Defend the Cowley 13

It’s 1983: Thatcher wins a second term in office and one Neil Kinnock assumes the leadership of the Labour Party…

Issue 21 for 18th August breaks the story of the sacking of 13 socialists from the Cowley car plant which is covered extensively in subsequent issues and linked to the unfolding political witch-hunt of the left inside the Labour Party.

In the signs that bewilder the middle class, the aristocracy and the poor prophets of regression, we do recognise our brave friend, Robin Goodfellow, the old mole that can work in the earth so fast, that worthy pioneer — the Revolution.
Karl Marx